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The study of epistemology can aid us as we work to achieve a vital, healthy cognitive life, one preoccupied with pursuing intellectual virtue. It can help to illuminate our intellectual duties and train us in the mental virtues. Providing an account of the stewardship of the mind requires that we think about three related epistemological matters: the logical structure of our knowledge, the requirement for justified belief, and how both bear on beliefs of central concern to Christians. Undertaking to make ourselves intellectually fit for the world in which we were created to live, believes Jay Wood, quite naturally leads us to ask whether there is an ideal structure for ordering our thought life, what rules or habits dispose us to flourish cognitively, and whether our religious and other beliefs reflect these cognitive ideals.

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How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally he examines the relationship of epistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in proper cognitive functioning

Professors will find this text, with its many examples drawn from everyday student experience, especially useful in introducing students to the formal study of epistemology.

Preface

1 The Nature of Epistemology
1.1 When Do Epistemological Questions Arise?
1.2 Epistemology and the Pursuit of Intellectual Virtues
1.3 The Christian and Intellectual Virtues
1.4 Doing Epistemology As If Virtue Mattered
1.5 Is Everyone Called to Pursue the Intellectual Virtues?

3 An Extended Look at Some Intellectual Virtues
3.1 Sudiousness and Vicious Curiosity
3.2 Intellectual Honesty and Dishonesty
3.3 Wisdom and Folly
3.4 The Relationship Between Ancient and Modern and Contemporary